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URUGUAY 95% BENIN 88 ICELAND 87 SLOVENIA 85 CHILE 79 COSTA RICA 79 ARGENTINA 79 BRAZIL 78 PORTUGAL 77 ISRAEL 76 UNITED STATES...
...less threatening to the women, and we're able to see female rites that men would be forbidden to see." They're less threatening to men as well, and as a result have gained access to such rites as Maasai circumcisions and the male passage to adulthood in Benin...
Also attending the vigil on the steps of Widener library was Omo Omoruyi, a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Benin, who initiated Nigeria's Democratic transtion program. "[Saro Wiwa] was my classmate; bright, intelligent, a man of peace," Omoruvi said. "His death should not have been the was it was, but he is gone...
...showing no signs of extinction. Second, the Yoruba never lived in Liberia, and if one were so bold as to check a map of the Africa Continent, one would find that these two countries are separated by four others--Cote D'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo and the Republic of Benin--and more than 1,000 miles. As far as we know, no single Sub-Saharan African culture ever covered so vast an area. I will, however, admit that 'Liberia' at least sounds similar to 'Nigeria...
Among the front-running Cardinals from this camp are the Dean of the College of Cardinals, Bernardin Gantin, 72, of the West African nation of Benin, and Lucas Moreira Neves, 69, a descendant of slaves and Archbishop of Salvador in Brazil. The name most frequently invoked, however, is that of Francis Cardinal Arinze, the charming and efficient Archbishop from Nigeria who heads the Pontifical Council for Inter-Religious Dialogue. A convert at the age of nine from the animist faith of the Igbo tribe, Arinze, now 62, enjoys robust health (he is an avid tennis player) and almost legendary status...